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NJ University Hospital settles qui tam suit alleging double billing of Medicaid

By Phillips & Cohen LLP

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The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) has agreed to pay the United States $2 million to settle a whistleblower suit that alleged its hospital violated the False Claims Act. The suit contended that University Hospital submitted claims to Medicaid for outpatient physician services that were also being billed by doctors working in the hospital?s outpatient centers.

The Justice Department press release said that the $2 million is in addition to $4.9 million UMDNJ had already paid to resolve criminal charges of double billing.

Full post as published by False Claims Act - Qui Tam on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).

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